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US Drought Brings A Surprise Benefit: No Tornados (cnn.com)
Slashdot reader turkeydance tipped us off to news that America hasn't had a single tornado in November, even though last year it experienced 99, and averages 58 every November. CNN reports:
Drought is overwhelming Southeastern states this fall, and temperatures have soared, depleting ground moisture. Storms need moist air to develop, and the lack of moisture this fall has inhibited storm development both for the much needed rain and the formation of supercell storms capable of producing tornadoes. Precipitation has been near or at zero for weeks in the region. The last measurable day of rain in Birmingham, Alabama, was September 18... As a result, wildfires have become the main disaster threat this fall.
The last five years have all seen a below-average number of tornados, and between 2012 and 2014 the U.S. saw fewer tornadoes than any previous three-year stretch.
It's an ill wind that blows nobody good.
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So you agree with global warming trends?
I live just outside of Birmingham, AL. Back on September 18th I bought the best umbrella I've ever owned. It works so well that it won't let rain come within a hundred miles of me.
That's the honest truth and I don't know what to do. I really want to keep the umbrella, but my yard needs rain. The grass crunches when I walk across the yard. It's drier than my ex-wife.
Are you going to argue that the southeast shouldn't have rain and claim that becoming a lifeless desert is preferable to the possibility of more frequent/severe tornadoes?
Or are you just going continue to make up more ridiculous strawman arguments that you wish climate activists would make because it would make them easier to dismiss?
Will climate activists blame the drought on global warming and try to argue that we should have more frequent/severe tornadoes?
That's the way I understand it.
See I study climate science. I read what the conservative media says about what the liberal media says about what the politicians say about what the climate scientist say - so, I am an expert.
And what the consensus is that climate is bad. We need to live in a climate free World.
I don't think we need to bring baked beans into this.
The annual number of tornadoes and the number of strong tornadoes are both trending down. The data doesn't lie.
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
Back before humans controlled the rivers, that'd be enough. The floods would fill the swamps, and the swamps would be wet until the next flood. Now, with levees and canals, the floods are directed to the ocean, so the ground doesn't get the water, the ocean does. Then we complain the ground is dry. Like we didn't know how rain works.
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No more liberals! Off to Canada you go babies! No free college for you!
Notice that none of these people ever threaten to go to, you know, Mexico?
Will climate activists blame the drought on global warming and try to argue that we should have more frequent/severe tornadoes?
People need to learn to differentiate between local, regional, and global phenomena. Not every out-of-the-ordinary event is related to climate change. Events which deviate far from the norm are probably NOT related to anthropogenic global warming.
During this same period of severe southeastern drought, most of the western U.S. has been significantly wetter than normal. Many places have experienced 200-400% of their typical rainfall.
Also during this same period... Most of the U.S. (both west and east) has been warmer than normal; but much of northern Asia and Eastern Europe has been cooler than normal.
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Bullshit. Did you even look at the article?
http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/...
Show me your trend. Please.
If you are looking at the high end tornado figure, there appears to be a weak downward trend over several decades, but 2011 just rang and asked if El Reno, Joplin and Tuscaloosa wanted to come out and play.
A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous, got me?
Thanks to the drought, there have been *no* sharknadoes either!
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